Hezbollah targets Zionist barracks after commander killed
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group said Sunday it had targeted two military positions in the northern Zionist entity with an armed drone in response to the killing of a commander. For almost two weeks, tensions and cross-border fire have escalated, along with bellicose rhetoric, raising fears of a wider Middle East war.
The Zionist entity and the Iran backed Hezbollah had already been exchanging near-daily cross-border fire since the Gaza war erupted on October 7. Hezbollah’s announcement of the latest cross-border attacks came hours after it published a video excerpt purporting to show locations in the Zionist entity along with their coordinates.
On Saturday, another armed group, Jamaa Islamiya, announced the death of one of its commanders, Ayman Ghotmeh, saying he was killed in a “Zionist raid” in Khiara, in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa area near Syria.The Zionist entity later confirmed it had carried out the strike, saying Ghotmeh was responsible for supplying the Fajr Forces, Jamaa Islamiya’s armed wing, and Hamas with weapons in the area.
Hezbollah on Sunday said its fighters launched a strike “with an attack drone” on a military leadership position in the north of the Zionist entity “in response to the assassination carried out by the (Zionist) enemy in the town of Khiara”. The Zionist military said in a statement that a drone had “crossed from Lebanon and fell in the area of Beit Hillel” but “no injuries were reported”. Hezbollah later said it had also struck further south into the entity. A “squadron of assault drones” targeted the “headquarters of the newly created 91st Division in Ayelet Hashahar” near the occupied city of Safad, it said.
The Zionist military said one of its soldiers “was severely wounded” as a result of a drone strike and taken to hospital for treatment. On Tuesday the Zionist military had announced that plans for an offensive in Lebanon had been “approved and validated”, after which Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said no part of the entity would be spared in the event of an all-out war.
Hezbollah on Saturday evening published a video showing Zionist positions and coordinates, along with an excerpt of Nasrallah’s speech in which he says “if